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Week of April 21, 1963

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GRANDMOTHER AND THE PRIESTS
Taylor Caldwell
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GRANDMOTHER AND THE PRIESTS

by Taylor Caldwell · Doubleday

3 wks on list

Novel about eleven encounters with the miraculous in the British Isles, told to a little girl and her worldly Irish grandmother by a circle of priests.

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TRIUMPH
Philip Wylie

TRIUMPH

by Philip Wylie · Doubleday

7 wks on list

In the world's upper hemisphere, only one small group has survived World War III: fourteen people, sheltered deep within a limestone mountain in Connecticut and with enough supplies and equipment to maintain their subsistence for upwards of two years. The group includes a forward-thinking millionaire and his family, a levelheaded Jewish scientist, a playboy, an aging African American servant and his daughter, a gigolo and the glamorous woman who has been his mistress, a beautiful Chinese girl, a young meter reader, two children, and a Japanese engineer. Fully aware of the outcome of the war that had raged briefly above them, the survivors seethe with hatred, fall into depression over their losses, rise to moments of superhuman bravery, and lapse into behavior that reflects their human weaknesses. Philip Wylie mercilessly predicts the inevitable end of a world that continues to function as selfishly and as barbarously as our own.

Historical bestseller data sourced from the New York Times Book Review, archived by Hawes Publications.